Rooftop Residences

With floorspace areas ranging from 130 to 204 m², the BEL & MAIN Rooftop Residences meet even the most exacting demands with regard to space and representative living comfort. The spacious, airy feeling of the apartments is complemented by their generous ceiling heights (an impressive 3.20 metres) with floor-to-ceiling window areas and a special location on the top floor of the building with an impressive view across Vienna’s rooftops. This ensures an unlimited feeling of space as well as fascinating, unrestricted panoramic vistas from the apartments and the large terrace areas.

The spacious terraces in each of the Rooftop Residences units offer a particularly exclusive dimension of living. In combination with the floor-to-ceiling window areas, this makes for a light-flooded, airy setting. Depending on the direction in which the apartment is facing, the terraces at a height of approximately 60 metres offer fascinating views across Vienna’s rooftops. In clear weather, one can even see as far as the Leitha Mountains. The high-quality, durable terrace flooring in the apartments, made of solid Siberian larch, underscores the exquisite character of the terraces as full-fledged, versatile outdoor living areas.

The BEL & MAIN Rooftop Residences are not just located on the building’s top level, they also feature a generous ceiling height of 3.20 metres. In combination with the apartments’ floor-to-ceiling glazing, this creates a particularly airy, impressive spatial experience with unobstructed views across the entire city of Vienna and far beyond.

In the warmer months, state-of-the-art air conditioning technology ensures pleasant comfort in BEL & MAIN Residences: instead of conventional air conditioning systems, a modern ceiling cooling concept provides cool air without noise or annoying drafts. The large-scale room cooling system via the ceiling surfaces provides a comfortable temperature level while avoiding the hygiene problems of conventional air conditioning systems. Temperatures in the residential areas can be controlled individually by separate room thermostats. Together with the automated shading systems and outstanding building insulation, this ensures a pleasant indoor climate even during hot summers.

The generous ceiling height of the BEL & MAIN Rooftop Residences (3.20 metres) in combination with floor-to-ceiling glazing creates a unique living experience that is distinguished by impressive views of the urban landscape at any time of day. In the context of the low-energy concept, the ecological three-pane glazing guarantees excellent heating requirements in energy class B. Fresh air is supplied through the terrace as well as in all residential spaces through opening wings in the style of French balconies.

The intelligent architectural concept of the residential building takes into account the carefully considered orientation of the façade fronts as per compass directions, angles of incident sunlight and viewing axes. Due to the special location of the Rooftop Residences on the building’s top level, there are fascinating, completely unobstructed panoramic views from the floor-to-ceiling windows and the terraces, with a view of striking buildings such as Schloss Belvedere, St. Stephen’s Cathedral and the Arsenal, the Schweizergarten treetops and breathtaking sunsets beyond the modern architectural backdrop of Vienna’s main train station.

Thanks to the building’s impressive height of around 60 metres, the residential tower of BEL & MAIN Residences offers an unobstructed panoramic view of the city of Vienna and far beyond. Particularly the residents of the BEL & MAIN Rooftop Residences located on the building’s top level stand to benefit from these fascinating views: on a clear day, the view from the terraces and the residential areas with floor-to-ceiling-glazing extends far beyond 100 kilometres, all the way to the Rax/Schneeberg region in the southwest and the Leitha Mountains in the southeast.

The floor-to-ceiling glazing of the Rooftop Residences is supplemented by a carefully designed shading system that ensures optimum daylight incidence and reliable protection against the sun in all lighting and weather situations – even at the terrace doors. The automated control system uses an intelligent server that takes the respective sun and wind situation into account, ensuring optimum shading, a comfortable room climate and a particularly long service life of the system at high wind speeds. Separate shading switches in each residential area allow individual, manual control of the sun protection mechanisms. In addition, a central switch that raises and lowers all shading elements in the entire apartment at once at the touch of a button allows for extremely simple operation.

The BEL & MAIN Residences heating concept also operates at the highest level: the Rooftop Residences are equipped with under-floor heating systems that provide pleasantly even heat and minimise the formation of dust. The under-floor heating temperature can be controlled individually in each residential space via a separate digital room thermostat. The entire building is in compliance with high energy efficiency class B and is heated with environmentally friendly district heating. The building’s excellent insulation ensures an optimal use of resources with a low-energy house standard.

The fully equipped bathroom oases in the Rooftop Residences feature high-quality sanitary ceramics by LAUFEN and stylish quality fittings by HANSASTELA. The shower fittings have a hand shower as well as a rain shower for pleasant showering comfort. Practical details such as own towel dryers or washbasins with base cabinets and towel rails complete the well-designed equipment concept. Optimum lighting quality in the bathrooms is ensured by discreet recessed spotlights in the suspended ceilings. Fine floor and wall tiles in a discreet natural “Chalk” hue create a friendly, bright appearance and continue the design-conscious residential atmosphere into the sanitary area.

Modern minimalist kitchens from brand manufacturer VITO harmoniously complement the urban and stylish design concept of the Rooftop Residences. Exquisitely lacquered surfaces in high-gloss white, the reduced, handle-less design of the kitchen fronts and handle profiles in stainless steel underscore the particularly elegant finish, just like the solid, polished stone worktops in the exquisite “Nero Assoluto” hue and the harmoniously matching glass back panels in a signal black colour. High-quality brand appliances from Miele harmoniously round off the selection of quality equipment and turn the kitchen and dining areas of the BEL & MAIN Rooftop Residences into extraordinary residential highlights with a special feel-good factor.

High-quality multi-layered oak parquet flooring from Austrian brand manufacturer Scheucher ensures a timeless and lasting elegance in all residential areas of the BEL & MAIN Rooftop Residences, and they can be ideally combined with a wide variety of residential styles. The generous dimensions of the individual planks (182 x 2200 mm) allow for extraordinary design accents and underscore an expansive feeling of space in all residential areas. Discreet skirting boards in a classic straight-line Swiss style round off the quality concept for the wooden floor surfaces.

An exclusive residential address of this kind also requires a reassuring feeling of maximum security: the carefully thought-out security concept in the access area of the buildings and the lobby of BEL & MAIN Residences doesn’t stop at the apartment door: a video intercom system with a large display in each rooftop apartment ensures optimal security when third parties enter the building. The apartment entrance door with security standard class 3, the security class recommended by the security prevention of the Vienna police department, allows residents to feel perfectly safe and protected.

All of the BEL & MAIN Rooftop Residences come with a modern KNX Smart Home System pre-installed by default. The control and automation of temperature levels, thermostats, shading, energy consumption and much more is child’s play, just by using an app – for exclusive residential comfort that is on the highest technical level as well.

In addition to the generously dimensioned storage space in the BEL & MAIN Rooftop Residences, the larger-than-average cellar compartments also include a variety of practical storage options: measuring approx. 4.5 m², they offer plenty of space to accommodate, for example, two bicycles and many other objects and small items. A separate outlet in each compartment makes it possible to connect, say, a wine refrigerator or to charge e-bikes or e-scooters without a problem.

With the intended ÖGNI Gold certification, BEL & MAIN Rooftop Residences will meet the highest standards of modern, ecologically responsible building technology in the context of a green building concept. The building corresponds to high energy efficiency class B and is heated with clean and environmentally friendly district heating.